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Practical Advice on Addressing Racial Justice in K-12 Schools: A Q&A with Gloria Ladson-Billings

Newsletter

August 13, 2020

The Misguided Push to Reintroduce Standardized Testing During the Pandemic

Newsletter

August 6, 2020

From Katrina to COVID-19: How Disaster, Federal Neglect, and the Market Compound Racial Inequities

Policy Memo

Kristen L. Buras

July 28, 2020

We All Want More Teachers of Color, Right?: Concerns and Considerations about the Emergent Consensus

Policy Brief

Thomas M. Philip and Anthony L. Brown

July 21, 2020

Teaching in Troubled Times: A Q&A With a Trauma Expert

Newsletter

July 16, 2020

The Most Important School Desegregation Case You’ve Never Heard Of

Newsletter

July 10, 2020

Michelle Renée Valladares, Ph.D. and Kate Somerville on COVID-19's Impact on K-12 Education

FYI

Michelle Renée Valladares and Kate Somerville

July 8, 2020

Big Claims, Little Evidence, Lots of Money: The Reality Behind the Summit Learning Program and the Push to Adopt Digital Personalized Learning Platforms

Research Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Christopher Saldaña

June 25, 2020

New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform

Resource Document

Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

June 25, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Diane Ravitch About Privatization

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Diane Ravitch

June 16, 2020

NEPC Review: Are Charter Schools Safer than District-Run Schools? (Reason Foundation, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

June 9, 2020

Austerity, Subsistence, or Investment: Will Congress and the President Choose to Bail Out Our Children’s Future?

Policy Memo

Frank Adamson, Allison Brown, and Kevin G. Welner

June 4, 2020

A Few Weeks of Webinars

Newsletter

June 2, 2020

NEPC Statement about Police Violence and Civil Unrest

FYI

Kevin G. Welner

May 31, 2020

NEPC Review: Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms (EdChoice, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 27, 2020

The New Normal Could Be Better Than the Old One. A Learning Scientist Explains Why.

Newsletter

May 21, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Frank Adamson About the Privatization of Public Education

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Frank Adamson

May 19, 2020

Three Ways to Emphasize Equity During School Closures

Newsletter

May 14, 2020

Temperature Check: School Funding and the Coronavirus Recession

Newsletter

May 12, 2020

NEPC Review: Financial Crisis Looming for K-12 Schools? Flexibility Needed, Not Bailouts (Heritage Foundation, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Jack Schneider

May 7, 2020

Sustaining and Scaling Community Schools: Seven Questions to Consider

Newsletter

May 5, 2020

Incarcerated Children During the Pandemic

Newsletter

April 30, 2020

Coronavirus is Hard on Everyone. But Immigrant Students Face an Additional Set of Challenges

Newsletter

April 28, 2020

Coronavirus Testing Cancellations Threatened to Worsen Inequities. So These Students Spoke Out

Newsletter

April 21, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Educators and Activists About Educational Equity During the Pandemic

FYI

Christopher Saldaña, Jillian McRae, Ann Dealy, Saa’un Bell, Kyle Serrette, and Keith Catone

April 16, 2020

NEPC Review: A Roadmap to Fix Arizona School Finance: Steering the Grand Canyon State Toward Fairness and Innovation in K-12 Education (Reason Foundation, February 2020)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

April 14, 2020

Children’s Data Privacy During COVID-19 Closures: 10 Questions to Ask

Newsletter

April 9, 2020

NEPC Review: Public-Private Virtual-School Partnerships and Federal Flexibility for Schools during COVID-19 (Mercatus Center, March 2020)

NEPC Review

Kevin G. Welner

April 8, 2020

When a School is More Than Just a School: How Schools of Opportunity are Handling Coronavirus Closures

Newsletter

April 2, 2020

NEPC Review: Child Safety Accounts: Protecting Our Children through Parental Freedom (Heartland Institute, November 2019)

NEPC Review

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos and Gabriella Garriga

March 31, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell About the Educational History of Harlem

FYI

Christopher Saldaña, Ansley T. Erickson, and Ernest Morrell

March 26, 2020

Community Research Collaboratives

Policy Memo

Adam York, Siomara Valladares, Michelle Renée Valladares, Jon Snyder, and Matt Garcia

March 24, 2020

Policy Statement on the “Science of Reading”

FYI

March 19, 2020

NEPC Review: Charter Schools in Newark: The Effect on Student Test Scores (Manhattan Institute, January 2020)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

March 17, 2020

This School Raised Youth Voting Rates. Can Others Learn from Its Example?

Newsletter

March 12, 2020

NEPC Review: Ripple Effect: How Expanding School Choice Programs Can Lead to More College Graduates and a Stronger Economy (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, January 2020)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

March 10, 2020

Four Big Takeaways About Testing

Newsletter

March 5, 2020

NEPC Review: Measuring Student Poverty: Developing Accurate Counts for School Funding, Accountability, and Research (Urban Institute, December 2019)

NEPC Review

Michael Harwell

March 3, 2020

Should For-Profit Corporations Be Writing America’s Curriculum to Best Serve Their Needs?

Newsletter

February 27, 2020

Tracking and the Future of Career and Technical Education: How Efforts to Connect School and Work Can Avoid the Past Mistakes of Vocational Education

Policy Brief

Emily Hodge, Shaun Dougherty, and Carol C. Burris

February 25, 2020

Misuse of Screens in Schools: An Action Kit to Help Parents

Newsletter

February 20, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara Finnigan About Educational and Urban Politics and Policymaking

FYI

Christopher Saldaña, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Kara Finnigan

February 18, 2020

NEPC Valentine’s Day Special: A Dozen Roses for Public Education

Newsletter

February 13, 2020

Between-District Desegregation: Three Districts That Are Doing It Right

Newsletter

February 11, 2020

Patience Can Be Rewarded: RAND Report Demonstrates Promise of Embattled NYC Community Schools Model

Newsletter

February 6, 2020

Investing for "Impact" or Investing for Profit? Social Impact Bonds, Pay for Success, and the Next Wave of Privatization of Social Services and Education

Policy Brief

Martin Carnoy and Roxana Marachi

February 4, 2020

Landmark Voucher Case Could Foster Discrimination and Further Lower the Church-State Wall of Separation

Newsletter

January 30, 2020

Does Online Education Raise Issues of Morality?

Newsletter

January 28, 2020

Will 2020 Be the Year of Acknowledging Opportunity Gaps?

Newsletter

January 23, 2020

NEPC Review: School Sector and Satisfaction: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Steven V. Miller

January 21, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Daniel Markovits About American Meritocracy

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Daniel Markovits

January 16, 2020

The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?

Policy Brief

Anne Gregory and Katherine R. Evans

January 14, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Kate Phillippo About Competitive School Choice in Chicago

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Kate Phillippo

December 19, 2019

The Dark Side of Parent Fundraising

Newsletter

December 17, 2019

Are Zillow and Realtors Contributing to School Segregation?

Newsletter

December 12, 2019

Educational Distrust is Everywhere. Here’s What We Can Do About It

Newsletter

December 10, 2019

Six Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBTQ Students

Newsletter

December 5, 2019

How to Start a Social Justice Reading Group in Four Easy Steps

Newsletter

December 3, 2019

NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

November 26, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Kevin Kumashiro About Education Deans for Justice and Equity Alliance

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Kevin K. Kumashiro

November 21, 2019

NEPC Review: Commercial Cash: How NY Schools Can Raise Extra Money Without Raising Taxes (Urban Institute, September 2019)

NEPC Review

William S. Koski

November 19, 2019

NEPC Review: Rising Tide: Charter School Market Share and Student Achievement (Thomas B. Fordham Institute , September 2019)

NEPC Review

Yongmei Ni

November 14, 2019

College Admissions Fraud and 504 Plans: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Edward Garcia Fierros

Newsletter

November 12, 2019

NEPC Review: Homeschooling and Educational Freedom (Cato Institute, September 2019)

NEPC Review

Robert Kunzman

November 7, 2019

Applications Now Open for Program Honoring High-Quality, Equitable Schools

Newsletter

November 5, 2019

Trauma Belongs in Schools. This New Book Explains Why.

Newsletter

October 31, 2019

NEPC Review: Beyond the Mirage: How Pragmatic Stewardship Could Transform Learning Outcomes in International Education Systems (June 2019)

NEPC Review

Frank Adamson

October 29, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Katherine Schultz About Distrust in Educational Change

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Katherine Schultz

October 24, 2019

NEPC Review: The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. (Manhattan Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

Joel Westheimer

October 22, 2019

NEPC Review: The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation (Urban Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

October 17, 2019

This Community Renovated Their Schools Instead of Tearing Them Down. The Results Are In. And They’re Spectacular.

Newsletter

October 15, 2019

Seven Trends to Reform U.S. Teacher Education, and the Need to Address Systemic Injustices

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

October 10, 2019

Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity

Newsletter

October 8, 2019

Teacher Education and Deeper Learning. These Seven Schools are Doing it Right

Newsletter

October 3, 2019

White Fragility. What it Looks Like in Schools

Newsletter

October 1, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Dirk Zuschlag and Kristine Bowman About State Intervention in School District Finances

FYI

Christopher Saldaña, Dirk F. Zuschlag, and Kristine L. Bowman

September 26, 2019

Who “Gets” to Be Bilingual?

Newsletter

September 24, 2019

Neo-Segregation: Communities That Divorce Their School Districts

Newsletter

September 19, 2019

The Saturday School Where Mexican American Children Learn About Their Heritage: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Angela Valenzuela

Newsletter

September 17, 2019

Bad and Better News about School Segregation

Newsletter

September 12, 2019

Young Adult Voting Skyrocketed in 2018. What Can We Do To Make It Happen Again?

Newsletter

September 10, 2019

States’ Intervention in School Districts’ Finances

Research Brief

Dirk F. Zuschlag and Kristine L. Bowman

September 5, 2019

Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why

Newsletter

August 29, 2019

Six Ways Trump “Public Benefits” Policies Could Harm Children

Newsletter

August 22, 2019

Are You Demoralized or “Just” Burnt Out?

Newsletter

August 15, 2019

Adolescence: 6 Facts to Know

Newsletter

August 8, 2019

The Promise of Meta-Analysis for Our Schools: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Gene V Glass

Newsletter

August 1, 2019

From Black Armbands to Instagram: Tinker + 50

Newsletter

July 25, 2019

Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times

Policy Memo

Ann M. Ishimaru, Megan Bang, Michelle Renée Valladares, Charlene Montaño Nolan, Henedina Tavares, Aditi Rajendran, and Katherine Chang

July 16, 2019

This Teacher Evaluation Trend Was the Reform Du Jour. Now States Are Backing Away

Newsletter

July 11, 2019

Funding Special Education: Charting a Path that Confronts Complexity and Crafts Coherence

Policy Brief

Tammy Kolbe

June 25, 2019

NEPC Review: Student Achievement in Florida's Charter Schools (Florida Department of Education, March 2019)

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

June 18, 2019

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice: 2019 Edition (EdChoice, April 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

June 11, 2019

This Professor Studied Undocumented Students. Then He Started a Scholarship for Them

Newsletter

June 6, 2019

NEPC Review: California Charter Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Impact on School Districts (Center on Reinventing Public Education, May 2019)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 31, 2019

New Report on Virtual Education: ‘It Sure Sounds Good. As It Turns Out, It’s Too Good to Be True.’

Resource Document

Valerie Strauss and Alex Molnar

May 29, 2019

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2019

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Najat Elgeberi, Michael K. Barbour, Luis Huerta, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, and Jennifer King Rice

May 28, 2019

Review Identifies Flaws in High-Profile “Gold Standard” Study Used to Market TFA

Newsletter

May 23, 2019

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach for America and the Teaching Fellows Programs (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2013)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Andrew Brantlinger and Matthew Griffin

May 23, 2019

Seven New Schools of Opportunity Recognized

Newsletter

May 21, 2019

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